KOJI SEKIMOTO
1969 born in Kobe, Japan
1992 graduated from Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Art and Music
1994 completed its Master Course
1995 C.A.S.K. (Katarina Sieverding course)
1996 lived and worked in Cologne
1997 Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne (Auditor of Prof.Jürgen Claus)
2003 lived and worked in Tokyo
2009- living and working in Yokohama
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 Bend Light / KYOTOba, Kyoto
2015 Poetic Iconography : Stuffed human / GALLERY the GALAXY , Koufu
2014 The Fairy Without Wings / TRAUMARIS｜SPACE , Tokyo
2012 Another I / C.A.P. Kobe
2008 The Backwards Clock in the Mirror / artothek Raum für junge Kunst Kölnisches Stadtmusseum, Cologne
2002 Mon péché mignon / Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne
2002 Romeo and / Òn Gallery, Osaka
2002 and Juliet / Studio J, Osaka
2001 Fresh as a Daisy / A/T FLAG SHOP DAIKANYAMA , Tokyo
2001 Pointe et Balance / Studio J, Osaka
2001 Charm Melody / OTA FINE ARTS, Tokyo
2000 Under the Umbrella / Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne
2000 Hush-Hush Days / OTA FINE ARTS, Tokyo
1999 8 Stories / OTA FINE ARTS, Tokyo (with Tomomi Maekawa)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Rokko Meets Art Beyond / Grand Hotel Rokko Skyvilla, Kobe
2023 The 26th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art, Special Award / Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki
2021 Exhibition commemorating the 5th anniversary of the opening of Kyoto-ba: "Individual, Body, Community - or Creation and Imagination of New Values and Communities"/ KYOTOba, Kyoto
2020 KG+2020 KYOTOGRAPHIE INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL SATELLITE EVENT/ KYOTOba, Kyoto
2020 CREATIVE RAILWAY/ Shintakashima Station, Yokohama
2017 made in Koganecho/vol.3 Site-A Beneath the Railways, Yokohama
2016 Advance+ / Key Gallery & Seika Gallery, Tokyo
2016 Art Fair 8 Day / Site-A Beneath the Railways, Yokohama
2016 Korea, China, Japan, Germany, International Art Exchange Exhibition /Seogwipo Arts Center , Korea
2016 neko neko Rieko / Kunst Arzt , Kyoto
2016 Tokyo 1.0 / Galerie Bienenbach, Cologne
2016 neko neko Rieko / JIRO MIURA GALLERY, Tokyo
2016 BankART Artist in Residence OPEN STUDIO 2016/BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama
2016 BankART AIR 2016 EXTRASHOW/BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama
2015 FOR HUMAN / Rhetoric of the branch /JIRO MIURA GALLERY,Tokyo
2015 Koganecho passage: Result / Site A, Yokohama
2014 Dream of East Asia /Photo Studio Chair/Landmark Project V/Bahamichi Shoei Biru, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama
2013 SUMMER SHOW2013 /Nihonbashi Takashimaya Bijyutu Garou X/ Tokyo,Shinjyuku Takashimaya Bijyutu Garou / Tokyo
2013 BankART Artist in Residence OPEN STUDIO 2013 /The Secret Base under the Table /BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama
2013 Asia Serendipity / Sala de exposiciones San Benito, Valladolid, Spain+La Térmica, Málaga, Spain
2012 Asia Serendipity / 15th PHotoEspaña, Teatro Fernán Gómez, Madrid
2011 KOGANECHO Bazzar 2011/Choosing clothes for my journey /Hatukou area, Yokohama
2011 SHIBUCulture / Seibu shibuya, Tokyo
2011 Gekitotsuten /unseal contemporary, Tokyo
2011 DECWAS" Shizuoka x Bremen art Project /Mackenzie House, Tokuganji, Shizuoka city, Gallery Psys, Shizuoka
2011 New Cosmos of Photography 2010 in Osaka / ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
2010 New Cosmos of Photography 2010 in Tokyo / Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
2010 KOGANECHO Bazzar 2010 DreaMachine / Hinode_Ryugu, Yokohama
2010 What does it mean to be intimate? / Reuben Keehan：Curator／BAZAAR COMMUNITY(1F), Yokohama
2009 KOGANECHO Bazzar 2009 / Yaguti Residence, Yokohama
2009 Hanaikada / Sôzôkûkan 9001, Yokohama
2009 New Cosmos of Photography 2008 in Osaka / ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
2009 New Cosmos of Photography 2008 in Sendai / sendai mediatheque, Sendai
2008 New Cosmos of Photography 2008 in Tokyo / Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
2008 Exhibition from HOMAM, 2008 (Miki Motizuka, Mitstushi Hatiya, Asuka Yokozama, Emiko Hoyaki, etc.) / Home of Mac and Millie, Shizuoka
2007 Exhibition from HOMAM, 2007 (Mitstushi Hatiya, Yasuhiro Suzuki, Akira Kasuga, etc.) / Home of Mac and Millie, Shizuoka
2006 Mädels (with Noritoshi Hirakawa, Rosemari Trockel, Felix Stephan Huber, Kalaman, etc.) / Galerie Gabriele Rivet, Cologne
2005 Shifting Moments (with Eva Castringius ) / Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne
2002 Pas de deux (with Tina Haase) / Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln, Cologne
2002 3 Jahren/ Martin Kudlek, Cologne
2001 The very Last (with Sumimaro, Karl Bohrmann, Tina Haase,etc.) / Gabriele Rivet, Cologne
2001 Inszenierte Photographie zur Photoszene Köln 2001 (with Eva Castringius ) / Martin Kudlek, Cologne
2000 Works on Paper (with Kusama Yayoi, Nara yoshitomo, Tamu Ochiai, etc.) / OTA FINE ARTS, Tokyo
1998 Little Creatures (Fischli&Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Yoschihiro Suda, Nara Yoshitomo etc.) / Michael Zink Gallery, Regensburg
1996 Sound of Art-Welcome to Mirror Land (PH Studio, Mitihiro Shimabuku, Mikio Fujimoto etc. ) / Iwakura symbol Road, Aichi
Other Works
2023 Artist relay talk / Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki
2019 NHK ”SyutokenNetWork Ittemiyo-Ittemitai” / TV Interview/, Yokohama
2019 ”HIRUMAEHOT” / TV Interview/, Yokohama
2016 Artist talk /BankART NYK, Yokohama
2015 Artist talk /JIRO MIURA GALLERY,Tokyo
2015 Artist talk /Site-A Beneath the Railways
2015 Artist talk /Tokyu Inn Motoazabu Gallery KOFU
2014 Artist talk with Hiromi Kitazawa / TRAUMARIS｜SPACE , Tokyo
2013 Artist talk /BankART NYK, Yokohama
2012 Artist talk / C.A.P, Kobe
2012 FM Moov/ “Spece Dog!, Radio” Kobe Sep.11
2012 In Camera /Work-shop / Keyaki Hall, Tokyo
2012 In Camera /Work-shop / C.A.P, Kobe
2011 Artist talk with Takayoshi Kitagawa / Koukashita Studio Site D, Yokohama
2010 +PLUS Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair/ Tobi Art Forum, Superstore lnc.
2010 Ryugu Project/ Panelist of symposium/ A Stuio Hinode, Yokohama
2009 NHK ”Good Morning Japan” / TV Interview/ Koganecho, Yokohama
2009 NHK ”TOKYO EYE #141” / TV Interview/ Koganecho, Yokohama
2009 Art fair Photo Taipei 2009 / The Westin Taitei, Superstore lnc.
2008 19.International Photoszene Köln 2008/ artothek, Cologne
2008 Cologne U.V / Radio Interview/ artothek, Cologne
2008 In Camera /Work-shop / Shiseido Art House, Shizuoka
2008 Stille Nacht / Piano-Performances Mariko Amano/ Home of Mac and Millie, Shizuoka
2007 Center TV/ Cologne, Live Interview
2002 Reading Walter Brix&Julia K. Altemann/ Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln, Cologne
2002 Performances Sylvia Csontos & Pascal Bousso/ Il m' aime / Martin Kudlek, Cologne
2002 LOVE TV/Osaka, Interview
00-05 Art fair Brussels, Frankfurt, Cologne, Paris, Zurich,/ Galerie Martin Kudlek
2000 Reading Thorsten Kaemer-Novelist / Galerie Martin Kudlek Cologne
1999 Reading Tomoko Morikawa-Opera singer / OTA FINE ARTS, Tokyo
1997 Director of street Workshop, Iwakura, Aichi
1996 Workshops & performances in kindergartens, Iwakura, Aichi
Artist page
2020 Catalog: BEND LIGHT (Yasuo Nakano), Published: Koji Sekimoto
2014 Catalog: Photo Studio Chair KOJI SEKIMOTO, Published: BankART 1929
2012 Kobe Shinbun Sep.22
2008 Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (Malina Opitz)
2008 Kölner News Jornal (Martina Uckermann)
2008 Kölne Rundshau (Ursula Härtling)
2008 artothek 2008：Catalog (Christiane Dinges)
04-05 New Haus Aug-Jan.
2002 Ryuko Tsushin, Feb. P.120.121.123.124
2002 Memo Apr. p. 146
2002 Prinz July
2002 Pas de deux ：Catalog
2002 Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
2001 Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
2001 Bijutsu Techo, Feb. p.73.80.136.137
2001 Ginza,March
2001 Ryuko Tsushin, Apr. p 108
2000 Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
2000 Hush-Hush Days Catalog
Prize
2023 The 26th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art, Special Award
2010 New Cosmos of Photography 2010 in Tokyo / Chosen for Minoru Shimizu
2008 New Cosmos of Photography 2008 in Tokyo / Chosen for Kotaro Iizawa
Collection
2022 Ashikaga Museum of Art / Tochigi
2008 artothek Raum für junge Kunst Kölnisches Stadtmusseum, Cologne / Germany
2002 Japanisches Generalkonsulat Düsseldorf / Germany
2002 Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln / Germany
1996 Monuments installed on Symbol Road, Iwakura City / Aichi Prefecture